you can only invest in new houses, you can only restore existing houses, you can only build new housesu can only support people into those houses the you've got a strong economy. we inherited mass unemployment, and economy that was completed collapse, a banking crisis and now we've got zero inflation, wages are growing, unemployment at 5% and an economy growing and people able for the first time to look to the future and see taken by ann althouse in our country. [shouting] >> -- buy a house in our country. >> a 19 year old ucd woman when days came to her village. they killed most of her family, they tortured her, raped her and then make her their slave. mr. speaker, her story is the same as thousands of ucd women except thousands of ucd women are still in captivity and nadia managed to escape. in fact, not he is in the public gallery today. mr. speaker, with a prime minister join me in acknowledging her resilience, bravery, the essential qualities that allowed her to triumph over daesh? will he do everything in his power to redouble his efforts to support the yazidi women and eradicate

bonus housing. if market rate reduction slows soak it with party made the goal for market rate housing. so it can probably think of some other creative ways to do this like maybe have a minimum size-we certainly see how people will adjust to the number of units but let's get the number. let's get the number out of the charter and into your hands. >> thank you. next speaker, please. >> peter cohen. i have copies of a letter here for you all. buford from a lot of folks. we have therefore the housing crisis. we all know it. there's reports of their studies is media news piece. this all kinds of proclamations. what we need are solutions. i would argue what you have in front of you is one solution not the only solution. get inclusionary housing one way to create affordable housing. the proposition a bond was asleep. the housing trust fund in 2012 was a solution but i would argue you start looking at that short-term rental paxman. there's lots of solutions. the proposal before you is very simple. take inc

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and the affordable housing participation was changed from thirty percent to 25 percent. >> the housing plan and final housing plan utilized 47 percent of the tax increment from the local share as well as a commitment from the developer of 17 thousand plus per month to help fund the affordable housing component this table summarizes the differences continue the 25 percent and the thirty percent in 2011 as envisioned and put forward and again, the large loss of 4 hundred units of affordable housing will be the environment approval for the units because of uncertainty around redevelopment at the time they were provisions the housing plan that contemplate the potential of reauthorization of redevelopment including which automatically reverified verified the program to thirty percent if the key provisions were reconstituted that would be 60 percent of tax increment available for public infrastructure improvements that the comboiblth of the i f d for the thirty years to 45 years and that the basic the other elements of redevelopment the eligible improvements will be consistent with what was

it mercy housing, bridge housing and larkin street and the booker t. washington community service and colleagues this legislation makes it easier and faster and less expensive to build affordable housing in san francisco as you may know and we have a lot of various policy disputes in this building but one thing we agree on we are in the midst a go housing crisis the voters time and again have's told his overwhelmingly they want more affordable housing and they want it yesterday the housing trust funds prop c passed overwhelmingly to create a fund more affordable housing last november the affordable housing bond prop a passed overwhelmingly this first affordable housing bond to pass in many, many years as mayor ed lee and our board supervisor president london breed announced last month there is a working group look at the inclusionary housing requirement for market rate projects and the bureaucratic process either delayed it across the income levels will be discussed with a goal on putting a measure on the november ballot the legislation before us respo

and housing benefits. day, labor has got to realize the welfare bill has got to be brought under control. jeremy corbyn: michael corbin. >> mr. speaker, the measures in the housing bill could lose 180,000 affordable homes over the next four years. the prime minister is actually overseeing a very damaging housing prices. people are not buying. it is not putting enough on social housing. many people are forced to rely on the private renter sector. the benches behind him recently voted against an amendment put the -- put forward by my honorable friend for human habitation. david cameron: labor invested at 22 billion pounds in government in bringing social comes up take decent home standards. there are now 11 million people in this country who are private renters. does the prime minister know how many of those homes don't meet the decent home standard? the last five years, we have built more cancel houses that they have built in 13 years. here was the -- where was when that was going on? an absolutely hopeless

affordability and of course housing affordability, affordable housing is a critical part of housing affordability but housing affordability is much broader than affordable housing. it has to do with our overall housing policy am glad among other items we are are discussing we are discussing what i think is a sheer desire to increase inclusionary percentage could i support supervisor cohen's proposed amendments. i don't see any harm whatsoever in requiring a periodic feasibility analysis in terms of making sure we strike the right balance good so, i will support that. i don't know if there has been a second. if not i will second it. but i do have a few questions of the city attorney. i have read the charter amendment to our make sure i'm interpreting it correctly because i have a few comments acted. the first is, the 25%, the weights calculated, as i read it, it is the below market rate units divided by the total number of units. so, if it's a 100 units product it would require 25 of the units be below market rate? >> deputy city editor. that's right the charter members 25% of all un

my other kids can't even buy a house let alone rent a house. i am for affordable housing. what really scares me is this cat and mouse game. we are held hostage, my kids are held hostage and the rest of san francisco are held hostage by this game. i understand the need for affordable housing and the 12% being way too low, but to put forth something that the voters are going to vote on and not do a feasibility study. i don't understand that. the only thing i have seen so far is that it's going to hurt. every report i have read it says it's going to hurt. so why the rush? it takes 10 years to approve a project and yet you are rushing through this like it's got to be done tomorrow. instead, do it responsibly, get the study out there. that's your job, not our jobs. say this is a good ordinance. you need to do that. be responsible, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. public speaker: hello. my name issalia from spurs. there is more information based on what we have seen. from staff, we do not think that 25% is viable. imposing this requirement will disrupt the productio

peter's boarded housing and the high density housing can be built in residential neighborhoods thereave approximately 4 rh1 and rh2 lots combined to create this project this per some of the maps under the office. >> i'm concerned because i live on a block 1440 the richmond's and we have two rh3, 6 units one preschool that will be subject or could be subject to if affordable housing bonus program allows lot meeting on the north setting in the respondiichmond basically i think you should restrict yourselves to the soft site thank you. >> good evening my name is paul weber i'm on the executive committee for for the san francisco neighborhoods i want to speak on the specifics of the tops affordability that was topic 6 why one ami is better than another ami we didn't hear the proposal of the city is in violation of the praushgz what was passed by the voters in 2014 we raised those questions but never an answer is percentage of middle-income housing is too high it needs to be restorverse prop k rivers almost too to one affordable housing to middle-income housing i away was not aware wie we

my other kids can't even buy a house let alone rent a house. i am for affordable housing. what really scares me is this cat and mouse game. we are held hostage, my kids are held hostage and the rest of san francisco are held hostage by this game. i understand the need for affordable housing and the 12% being way too low, but to put forth something that the voters are going to vote on and not do a feasibility study. i don't understand that. the only thing i have seen so far is that it's going to hurt. every report i have read it says it's going to hurt. so why the rush? it takes 10 years to approve a project and yet you are rushing through this like it's got to be done tomorrow. instead, do it responsibly, get the study out there. that's your job, not our jobs. say this is a good ordinance. you need to do that. be responsible, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. public speaker: hello. my name issalia from spurs. there is more information based on what we have seen. from staff, we do not think that 25% is viable. imposing this requirement will disrupt the productio

balloons on the house, and that's how it became the "up" house. >> it is amazing. i can't believe that she held out. [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] ♪ >> i'm jamie colby, and today, i'm in seattle, headed toward the ballard neighborhood. it's an upscale area once known for sawmills and commercial fishing, and just down the road is one man's strange inheritance and a story with a hollywood ending. >> my name's barry martin. i inherited a tiny, hundred-year-old house from a little old lady. if there ever was a real-estate niche, this is one. >> hi, barry. i'm jamie. >> hi, jamie. nice to meet you. >> i meet barry in front of this little house. yep, this is it -- his strange inheritance. it's just 600 square feet, and it's now surrounded by a huge shopping mall -- a mall that the unlikely heir in this story helped build. >> who leaves this to somebody? >> well, edith left it to me. >> edith? >> yep. >> love to learn more. >> okay. come on. >> barry explains that when this house was built over a hundred years ago, ballard, washington, w

the affordable housing market rate housing are linked. if we don't either delink them or if we stifle the production of market rate housing it is going no doubt will have a chilling effect on the production of affordable housing, so please consider carefully what you're doing here, and find the right path for us. thank you. >> thank you very much. next speaker please. >> hi. my name is oz ericson and president of emerald fund. just one point before i address this issue. i was on the committee that senator leno's committee on affordable housing. i went to meetings for nine months every wednesday at 12:00 o'clock and contrary to what supervisor peskin says we considered economics of that affordable housing very, very carefully, spent an enormous amount of time on it and widely supported by many of the market rate developers contrary to what supervisor peskin says. i was one of them. i worked very hard on it. it was very good legislation and that should be the way what we approach this legislation. we should do an economic analysis to make s

i understand there's a large need for bmr and inclusionary housing. there isn't a lot of discussion what happens for middle class san franciscan and make more than average middle class citizen in a city but the reality is they're renting until they buy somewhere else and they're buying a vacation home before buying in the city and market rate is what there is available to take care of the folks and like most places and not a lot of concern for these folks in the meetings but that's what the small time developer is doing and important to keep in mind intended consequences versus unintended consequences and the things that everything that goes to a ballot initiative will find the right solution and not necessarily born out over time. i think prop 47 had good intentions behind it and now there is broken blases and bikes get up and walk away all over the city. it's important to keep in mind if you pass a blanket number, 25% across the board, there will be lots vacant indefinitely and i don't think that's what the city needs. the crisis doesn't need more i

there were houses for freed men while they worked on the white house. they were all on the white house campus but they are all gone today. what the white house looks like today and what it looked like back then, that area is completely different. it would be great to see a map. brian: presidents hid the fact that they bought slaves. james polk bought 19 slaves in the white house. boughthe came in and slaves while he was in the white house. he was one of the few people --t decided that he did not that he needed the extra help while he was here in washington. he had slaves of his own back on the plantation in tennessee and he needed help while he was here in washington. he decided he was going to buy more and bring them and train them to work inside the white house. brian: what is the story of elias polk. he was a conservative that wanted to run for office. slave he was a faithful for james pulled. when he went back to tennessee, he becomes a political figure. he decides he wants to run for office as a conservative. today, there are not as many conservati

i'm doing a lot of housing and i want to echo more and more and more and more housing. 8,000 more housed we need more and dream more than just a mat on the floor of an industrial shed. we need exit strategies. that is what we need. that is what we should fight for. i want to say that no one can deny the progress that was made with addressing chronically homeless veterans. it can't be denied. the city was able to take advantage though of some key federal subsidies, from the feds. and they were able to work together with a lot of different groups. there is a lot of different stakeholders. so i think that process, that planning process allowed us to house 136 chronically homeless vets in stanford hotel for instance on 250 kearny street. that is part of the a larger planning process and speaks to the recommendation that the department really needs to take advantage of all of the wisdom here in the room, and elsewhere, and not just like go into a backroom with usual suspects and come up with a plan, and saying here is the plan. now do your part in this. we have to be involved in the planning

clerk call that same house, same call? we'll do that same house, same call? at this time we will take nominations for the office of vice chair. >> commissioner campos. >> i'd like to nominate commissioner avalos a nomination for commissioner avalos are there a second seconded by commissioner farrell colleagues by further nominations for this seat? okay so on the motion so we will close nominations and take take public comment seeing none, no numbers of the public public comment is closed. >> mr. clerk can we do this same house, same call? >> we can congratulations to supervisor avalos who is now the vice chair of this timma subcommittee mr. clerk, call the next item and introduction of new items. >> any new items for introduction colleagues seeing none, move on to the next item. >> item 7 public comment? >> opening it up for public comment. >> thank you and enforcement all enforcement on mission work all enrollment on teachings and making the perfection of the destiny one takes on the divided compassionate for the meeting in the days of difficulty forcing the

it mercy housing, bridge housing and larkin street and the booker t.hington community service and colleagues this legislation makes it easier and faster and less expensive to build affordable housing in san francisco as you may know and we have a lot of various policy disputes in this building but one thing we agree on we are in the midst a go housing crisis the voters time and again have's told his overwhelmingly they want more affordable housing and they want it yesterday the housing trust funds prop c passed overwhelmingly to create a fund more affordable housing last november the affordable housing bond prop a passed overwhelmingly this first affordable housing bond to pass in many, many years as mayor ed lee and our board supervisor president london breed announced last month there is a working group look at the inclusionary housing requirement for market rate projects and the bureaucratic process either delayed it across the income levels will be discussed with a goal on putting a measure on the november ballot the legislation before us responds

housing. that's what community planning gets you. they have not built affordable housing, do you see affordable housing in the avenues? we had two people tonight stating you can't build affordable housing in the avenues. people here are saying don't do it, it will destroy neighborhood community. i think it's worth it, there's nothing so ugly as no housing. you know what i want to do is give you an 81 date on 100 van ness. on my way over here, remember that thing, i met somebody that lives there. this is the first time that i met somebody that lives somewhere that i testified in favor of, so i was really excited about it. he has a dog, he's really nice, he's really into bernie sanders. people are living there and there's going to be people living in the stuff that gets built if the affordable housing bonus program goes through. thanks. >> good evening, can i put something on the overhead? >> yes, of course. >> i just wanted to remind everyone how much property costs in this city nowadays. this

well, if they helped build the white house, then they must have helped the white house run because those same presidents who were slave holders on their home plantation, they didn't stop being slave holders when they moved to washington. they must have brought some of them with them. there had to be a story there. that meant that barack obama wouldn't be the first black man to live in the white house, he would just be the first president. but no one knew who these people were. and that -- i knew i had it right hen and there. right then and there. that's what i was going to write about it. i was going to write about the slaves who lived in the white house. now, after i had that -- i remember being so excited that i had this idea. i remember calling my editor and saying this is what i want to write, this is what i want to do. he said, calm down and make sure you're doing something that you think worthy of spending time on. so, you know, after i wrote my first book i knew i wanted to become better at writing books. so i actually went back to school. i went to goucher college -- [applause] y

they had to move into the blair house. it was interesting. pianoy gave margaret a and it fell through the ceiling. they really thought it was going to collapse. they had to move into the blair house. it was interesting. >> you talked about coming into the white house in seeing the dining room lights. can you talk about some of the things that you have found to be a pleasure in the job, as well as a burden? the reasonsure is why i decided to run. it was such a privilege. you are enveloped by history. i was in the east room. i have been there a million times. you go into the center of the the famousu have gilbert stuart painting on the wall was chilled forward sworn in after nixon resigned. ford, swornh gerald in after nixon resigned. the history is just remarkable and you cannot escape it. when you walk when they can walk and were thomas jefferson and lledklin roosevelt ro around, it is mind blowing to go in there. in the floor plan, i think it was the current white house on the second floor where they have " room noted as

and where is the provision and housing for them. >> sir, did you want to speak on this item okay is there any additional public comment? >> public comment is closed. commissioner moore. >> i'd like to ask the gentleman to answer a question regarding shadows i understood your modeling shadows really shaped the building to have no shadows period; is that correct and that's correct, yes. >> did you have any idea any response to the question that ms. hester was raising. >> again as i lived in my presentation we did a thorough shadow analysis and hiring a consultant that labor day impacts under prop c section 295 we had a minor shadow impact think the initial modeling that was revised the project before us has no impact on the jan friend recession center and i appreciate that but there are ways of modeling buildings so not cast a shoold that creates a maximum shadow for the environment with regards to other projects that is a way of doing it but that aside i think this is a good in fill project for harrison and those are difficult sites the context of the site is still but the one questi

the white house got his first telephone. number of the first white house telephone was one. that was the number. but not everyone could call because there were only other -- orause there were only two three other phones at the time in washington. it may have been only three phones in all of washington at the time. if you were one of the other two guys, the president actually answered the phone. i am pretty sure that does not happen today. [laughter] let me come back to lincoln for a second. i want to tell you about the greatest misunderstandings about him and it concerns the so-called "lincoln bedroom." you see the air road there. arrows -- you see that there. that is what is called the lincoln bedroom. not so. in lincoln's time, that was his office. he called it the shop. this is what his office looked like. this room of the nerve center of the lincoln presidency. speeches here. he issued the emancipation proclamation. everything happened in this room. hehad maps on the wall where could track the civil war. you see the window on the left, there is the unfinished washington

white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

i'm the director of development -we provide supportive housing in the housing and senior housing in the tenderloin and other neighborhoods in spain san francisco. i speak in support of evan gross's waiver request and agree with the statement he made to many others before me regarding away affordable housing developers partner the city to realize shared goal of providing housing to low income people. i struck an example of the staff report of the deputy city attorney long leaving to work for turn. the facts are parallel. the city forwarding for the housing developer of mutual interest and their advocacy for the approval housing project in terms of prices of the california state of california [inaudible]. an example of the mutual interest as mentioned earlier the city of san francisco but that's a ground lease structure to prevent launching the affordability in future negotiations negotiationswithout wonders [inaudible]. when doing transactional work both parties are better served when each side has knowledge and experience in the associate competence and creativity need to work together

house of representatives.] the chair: on this vote, the ayes have 240 the nays are 176. the amendment is adopted. the unfinished business is the request for a recorded vote on amendment number 7 printed in part a of house report 114-420 by the gentleman from arizona, mr. grijalva, on which further proceedings were postponed and on which the noes prevailed by voice vote. the clerk will redesignate the amendment. the clerk: amendment number 7 printed in part -- in part a of house report 114-420, offered by mr. grijalva of arizona. the chair: a recorded vote has been requested. those in support of the request for a recorded vote will rise and be counted. a sufficient number having risen a recorded vote is ordered. members will record their votes by electronic device. this will be a two-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or co

but up here first, the white house finally kicking out the wealthy from government housing. but our source say it's time to kick the government out of the housing business all >>> welcome back. better late than never. last august, we told you about wealthy families caught living in government subsidized housing paid for by you, the taxpayer, like a family in new york city making nearly half a million bucks a year, now, the white house throwing out a plan to kick out rich folks like that. mike says this is why we need to kick out the government from the housing assistance business. >> thoos right ft anytime the government gets involved in something, at least scarcity, right here in new york city, the government had put in place a lot of so-called affordable housing. generally terrible places to live. plus u, it's boost up the prices of other nonsubsidizeded housing. if you're a middle class family in new york, good luck finding a place to live. >> we want to take care of the poor, but should we kick the government out of housing for sure? >> no, don't end government housing,

house would be used for a drug house. they wanted to wire the house up with video and audio. i said yeah, i think we can make that happen. >> this is where the house was. the house was donated to us. it was scheduled for demolition. that's the spot right there. it was pretty much disgusting when we got it but they were kind enough to let us do whatever we wanted to do. we carried lots of carpeting and junk inside. >> we chose a location because at the time the targets that we are looking at were looking for an eastside spot. this is near the east side of town in rockford. they were looking for a spot that had alleys that was hidden from the general traffic but could be accessible to somebody that would want to get in and get out. >> it was boarded up. every window, every door was boarded up. inside the carpet was rotten. the flooring was a mess. all the utilities were not functioning. we would come over in our undercover vehicles. we would paint, do electrical work, plumbing, totally redo the house but we added things to

the british have a parliament with two houses, the house of lords, the house of commons and there's definitely parallels with our congress. the house is very similarly set up to the house of commons, and the senate therefore would be based on the house of lords. obviously will not -- we will not have dukes and girls with noble titles, but we have states in every state is equal in the senate, so the state takes the place of the house of lords. the british, using that green color government, the colonies would use it, but the red would be much more that house of lords kind of color, so you will see red in the early senate here in philadelphia. it definitely has that kind of look to it that seems a bit on the higher end. the interesting thing about the senate is they are created with a bit more power, power they tied to the president. treaties in the united states are with the advice and consent of the senate, approve with the advice and consent of the senate. so, there is 1 -- also any time the president makes an appointment to his cabinet, and ambassador, supreme court, of course, those people

affordable housing isn't an issue being raised. housing is very important. there has been the epic report issued by edon. it's reported there's going to be 16,000 new households in the next five years. we've been working with the private sector in terms of rental or affordable housing as opportunities for low and middle income. does the state provide funding. how does the state get involved. you're not developers. what we use is a public private partnership model. we're working right now on summit club. it's going to bring five 84 new units right near the summit mall. it will be class a beautiful apartments. 20% of them will be set aside for work force housing. what we do we help the doel you are finance it biy helping issuing multi-development bonds. where does the money come from. we issue baubeds. rather the developer has to pay them back from the project revenues. what happens if the project went if they default then the guarantee in the financial consequences would fall on the lap of the developer. klein corporation and they have decades worth of experi

meanwhile housing costs continue to soar.edian rents have risen by 5% and income has dropped by 7%. she has lived in new york her whole life and for over a year she and her kids have been forced to live in shelter. >> when it came down to the ending of my lease, that was a prime opportunity for the landlord to say okay we don't way. >> she depended on a state program to help her pay the rent, when her landlord raised the price she was evicted. >> he wanted higher rent. $2200. >> yes. >> could you afford that? >> absolutely not. >> reporter: she is looking for an apartment she can afford. it's a search that has taken her far outside the city, an hour and a half bus ride to middle town new york. we met her in middle town but the broker who agreed to show her around cancelled. so i just really in a really bad emotional place right now, not feeling the greatest. i feel like it was just a waste of time. >> reporter: to salvage the trip she decided to look anyway. what is it like doing a search in the shelter is it hard? >> when yo

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. >> he said, "it's from the white house." and i go, "talking about d.c. white house?" i was just stunned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inhe

aspect of it, from low-income housing to rental housing to new housing to resell housing. and one of the things i recognized over the years what an important part housing is to the fabric of our country and how important housing is to families and how people nt into the housing market -- enter into the housing market in different ways. certainly there are folks that go into market-based rental housing and there are folks that aren't quite ready to do that. maybe they're getting started or they had a difficulty in their life. so a lower-income housing provides an opportunity for them. and i think the goal of the housing programs over the years is to provide low-income housing is a steppingstone and not a permanent resident. and one of the things i like about h.r. 3700 is that it encourages that process. as been brought up, a number of these programs and over the years, sometimes a good idea spreads around and we spend a lot of time probably creating new housing programs and probably spent a lot of time increasing the funding for housing programs but in many cases maybe we d

my other kids can't even buy a house let alone rent a house. i am for affordable housing. what really scares me is this cat and mouse game. we are held hostage, my kids are held hostage and the rest of san francisco are held hostage by this game. i understand the need for affordable housing and the 12% being way too low, but to put forth something that the voters are going to vote on and not do a feasibility study. i don't understand that. the only thing i have seen so far is that it's going to hurt. every report i have read it says it's going to hurt. so why the rush? it takes 10 years to approve a project and yet you are rushing through this like it's got to be done tomorrow. instead, do it responsibly, get the study out there. that's your job, not our jobs. say this is a good ordinance. you need to do that. be responsible, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. public speaker: hello. my name issalia from spurs. there is more information based on what we have seen. from staff, we do not think that 25% is viable. imposing this requirement will disrupt the productio

house of representatives.] the speaker pro tempore: the question is on the motion of the gentleman from new jersey, mr. garrett, to suspend the rules and pass h.r. 416. on which the yeas and nays are ordered. the clerk will report the title of the bill. the clerk: union calendar number 312. hrment r. 4168. a bill to amend the small business investment incentive act of 19 0, require an annual review by the securities and exchange commission of the annual government business forum on capital formation that is held pursuant to such actions -- acts. the speaker pro tempore: the question is, will the house suspend the rules and pass the bill. members will record their votes y electronic device. his is a five-minute vote. [captioning made possible by the national captioning institute, inc., in cooperation with the united states house of representatives. any use of the closed-captioned coverage of the house proceedings for political or commercial purposes is expressly prohibited by the u.s. house of representatives.]

and many that housing we get more below-market-rate housing that supports housing for workers whichur carpenters i represent about 35 hundred carpenters here in san francisco will have the opportunity to live in and we look forward to working with tishman inspire that is a great partner of local 22 in san francisco for many, many years thanyears thank you. >> good afternoon is commissioner president fong and commissioners i'm an lbe consultant and the program director of sea we'd a program that seeks to provide opportunities and exposure to first generation college students interested the real estate and public gave me i'm here to support the general plan amendment by way of context we want to present i've been working with tishman spire close to 18 months on their sbe program and prufrment as well as their training preamble both instances not only do they design and implement those programs successfully but far exceeded the goals and program requirements with powerful and impact wins and opportunities for the participation for the local community and young adults in san francisco i

my other kids can't even buy a house let alone rent a house. i am for affordable housing. what really scares me is this cat and mouse game. we are held hostage, my kids are held hostage and the rest of san francisco are held hostage by this game. i understand the need for affordable housing and the 12% being way too low, but to put forth something that the voters are going to vote on and not do a feasibility study. i don't understand that. the only thing i have seen so far is that it's going to hurt. every report i have read it says it's going to hurt. so why the rush? it takes 10 years to approve a project and yet you are rushing through this like it's got to be done tomorrow. instead, do it responsibly, get the study out there. that's your job, not our jobs. say this is a good ordinance. you need to do that. be responsible, thank you. >> thank you. next speaker please. public speaker: hello. my name issalia from spurs. there is more information based on what we have seen. from staff, we do not think that 25% is viable. imposing this requirement will disrupt the productio

white house?"ned. >> the white house neither confirms nor denies... >> what do you see? >> gold! [ laughs ] >> let's investigate! >> i scrape the paint layers down to the wood. >> and when you heard what it was worth? >> and sold! [ door creaks ] [ wind howls ] [ thunder rumbles ] [ bird caws ] >> i'm jamie colby, and today i'm in boston to meet an heir who has an inheritance so strange, it takes years just to figure out what it is. >> my name is mike meister. my siblings and i inherited something that goes back to our great-uncle more than a hundred years ago. we'd always been told that it came from the white house, but it was just a family story. hi, jamie. welcome to boston. >> thanks, mike. nice to meet you. >> yeah, nice to meet you, too. >> mike leads me inside, saying he has something amazing to show me. he keeps it in its own molded, air-tight protective case. can i take a look? >> sure can. >> you brought me all the way here, mike. this is... what is it? mike's strange inheritance is this

he caught this house on fire as well as the dream and now on top of the house and apparently it was still smoldering there was smoke coming out of the window the fire department is here state police they're here as well. someone alerted them to the issue and you can see that the fire department there actually spraying down the house so hopefully they'll be able to get that fire out so there's not even more of an issue there was a family who live there. they lost their home that's one of the ten structures in this town completely uh that that's just on now will win earlier today maybe about two and a half hours ago the governor came out here and not the tour around we the devastation he shook some hands with the national guard there about about children via the use of their hands and he said that he is proud of the state's response to the tragedy and he says that this tornado emphasizes the need to be ready when severe weather strikes. you know that or it's very hard you don't know all the sudden when one's going to pop down and you know creates a very difficult to get the warnings out the

his leadership in the white house. and i have a couple of caveats to share with you before i begin the meat of the talk. first of all, i am a political historian, not a military historian. most of you in this room know more about grant's military career, particularly after taking this course, than i do. my specialty is late 19th century american politics. the second caveat is the fact that i'm writing a book on the presidency of ulysses s. grant for the university press of kansas. it is still very much a work in progress. i haven't figured out everything about this man in the white house. perhaps that's an impossibility. so some of things i will be saying today are tentative in nature, shall we say. we don't have time today to go through an entire chronology of the events in grant's very busy two terms in the white house. instead, what i would like to do today is to raise a few points about how to look at the grant presidency. first to say something about history, how has he been treated in the past. i will be brief ab